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Nikita Khrushchev moved out of his wood-paneled office in the Kremlin one day last week so a CBS crew could strew it with cameras, lights and sound equipment. Next afternoon Russia's most powerful Communist stepped into the glare wearing the light grey suit the TV men had suggested, and two Hero of Socialist Labor medals on his chest. He firmly rejected any makeup, declined earphones for the simultaneous translation system, corrected an introduction describing the office as the room where Russia's major decisions are made: "We don't have a cult of personality...
...national defense. As missiles begin to supplant aircraft in the U.S. arsenal, the rocket-men are developing a fantastic new family of engines to conquer outer space. For a look at the companies that make the power plants of the future, see BUSINESS, The Rocket's Red Glare...
Everywhere there are signs of the prodigious energy of the most dynamic and disturbing artist of his time. Ferocious bronze owls glare from under the palms, a huge stone head of a woman lies in the basin of the fountain, plywood pipe-players are scattered about the lawn. Inside, the three main rooms are jammed. Canvases crowd the walls, spill out of crates. Weird ceramics stand in disheveled confusion on the floor. The rest of the space is taken up by a litter of objects that Picasso collects compulsively, objects that may set him off on a new theme...
...supporting text). But the K.K.K., long discredited in the South itself, is not a real issue. Segregation is, and the case for it-such as it is-could be made by more articulate and more respectable Southerners if Wallace wanted to report genuine controversy instead of basking in the glare of burning crosses. At his present rate, Wallace may work himself up to a hard-hitting expose of the man-eating shark...
...house, which cost an estimated $40,000 to build, is in effect a single room composed of "freestanding circles in a rectangle," with the kitchen and bath the most prominent circles set in the rectangle of the living area. Blue translucent-glass panels let in light and cut the glare; the interior is furnished with pale Japanese silks, gold-veined black Belgian marble, Finnish lamps, lacquered cane and teak chairs, aquamarine Puerto Rican tile, East Indian alabaster, a walnut-paneled bath with a circular tub of cerulean Italian tiles. Architect Hampton built the house to suit the owner...